The Vanquisher is a great piece of engineering, but it wasn't as great as advertised.

In particular, unless Natalya has special stats for the main gun, it was very weak and couldn't really destroy much in my humble opinion. I believe that was the main weakness of the Vanquisher. Of course, this thing stood its ground against a size 9 gun and missiles every turn and finished the game with two hit points so.

The Shadowscythe wrote:>MFW is realised how EFFIN HEUGE the Vanquisher is when compared to other tanks . . . or even small vehicles.

Holee shit, previous pictures did not do that thing justice until you presented the wide shots.

The whole battlefield is freaking huge, takes up almost the whole width of a ping-pong table. If you look at generic 32 x 32 baseplates (roads for example) then this battlefield is 6½ of them in length. People keep sending me instructions to have their guys go somewhere and do something, but the field is too big for them to accomplish whatever they were trying to do in one turn. The people playing in this game need to look at the scale of the map when sending orders.

Piltogg is doing good here because he decided to mash all his dudes onto one side of the map at the start. It is fucking crowded and the gate is a horrible choke point for him, but because he wasn't spread out at the start he has been effective at killing the Assyrian defenders as they slowly trickle in to fight his guys; like whatever unit went for him would get massacred by combined fire. Look at my dreadnought for example. He didn't kill the car, but he killed the gunner so now it is kinda pointless because its side guns are weak and it would get slowed down by junk piles if it tried to go after his army as it marches into the city.

In Turn 5 that dynamic got reversed a little because enough Assyrians had finally made it to where the gate is so now they're the ones who can combine fire, but their ranks are thin. If he can kill the Assyrian infantry with his vehicles then his infantry who are by the concert will be basically unchecked as they go for the Head Separator.

The death wall is falling, Assyrians and Akkadians dying on both sides by the bushes. The only thing this needs now is an epic shot of piltogg walking far away with the head sperator as a tactical nuke behind him destroys the everything. (I mean shoop, not actual lego, that would be just..too much)

Colette wrote:The Vanquisher is a great piece of engineering, but it wasn't as great as advertised.

In particular, unless Natalya has special stats for the main gun, it was very weak and couldn't really destroy much in my humble opinion. I believe that was the main weakness of the Vanquisher. Of course, this thing stood its ground against a size 9 gun and missiles every turn and finished the game with two hit points so.

Anyways, this wasn't a problem about the vanquisher sucking. As the commanding officer in this battle, I focused pretty much my entire defensive strategy around crippling and outranging the Vanquisher so that I could outrange and destroy it ASAFP. It went down because I was absolutely terrified of it, and dedicated all of the Trattorian armored resources towards squashing it down.

Of course, it helped that the Trattorian SHDT was pretty much designed as an extreme tank-killer - there's no way I'd hit anything smaller than a tank with the UR of that main gun. Plus the extreme range meant that I could target them waaaaay before they could target me, so I could just blow the treads and keep em there.